廉维同志是张瑞芳的母亲。早年在北平时,她从女儿张枬那里经常看到进步书刊,受到很大启发。日寇侵占北平后,她把家中衣物以及金银首饰,捐助了八路军和游击队。她的家,成为中共北平市委领导下的学委秘密开会的地方。一九三八年,她到了晋察冀,转赴延安,后来又回到晋察冀。她一直在平凡的岗位上,尽心竭力地工作着,我们敬爱的周总理当年曾称誉她是“值得钦佩的”。一九四七年,我和廉维同志在晋察冀 Comrade Lian Wei is Zhang Ruifang’s mother. In his early years in Peking, she often saw progressive books from her daughter Zhang 受, and was greatly inspired. After the Japanese invaded Peiping, she donated clothes and gold and silver jewelery at home to the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas. Her home became a secret meeting place for the academics under the leadership of CPC Beijing Municipal Committee of Beiping. In 1938 she went to Jin-Cha-Ji and went to Yan’an and later returned to Jin-Cha-Ji. She has been in an ordinary position, dedicated to work, and our beloved Premier Zhou had praised her as “admirable.” In 1947, Comrade Lian Jian and I were in Chahar-Ji